Hospitals are health-care institutions that provide inpatient and often outpatient and emergency services through organised clinical, nursing, diagnostic, and support functions. They range from district and general hospitals to tertiary and specialised centres, and serve as settings for acute treatment, surgery, int…
Hospitals are health-care institutions that provide inpatient and often outpatient and emergency services through organised clinical, nursing, diagnostic, and support functions. They range from district and general hospitals to tertiary and specialised centres, and serve as settings for acute treatment, surgery, intensive care, maternal and neonatal services, and the management of complex disease. Hospital performance depends on infection prevention and control, antimicrobial stewardship, hand hygiene, safe staffing and workforce retention, and the wellbeing of clinical staff, all of which influence patient safety and outcomes. As resource-intensive nodes of the health system, hospitals are central to both clinical care and health-systems research. Research in this area examines antimicrobial stewardship and prescriber knowledge in hospitals, social network analysis of integrated hospital services for hypertension, infection prevention and control among hospital healthcare workers, and nurse turnover in hospital settings. Further work addresses preventive practice during the COVID-19 pandemic among hospitalised pregnant women, blood donation misconceptions surveyed in hospitals, outcomes of paediatric traumatic brain injury in specialised hospitals, burnout among maternal and neonatal staff, and hand-hygiene knowledge and perception in clinical settings. Studies use surveys, network analysis, and cross-sectional designs across diverse settings. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on hospital services, safety, and the clinical workforce.
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